Top Ten Apps for Reading
Prepared by: Amy Lewis and Martha Lee
App Description
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Area of Support in Reading Process
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Associated
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Reason for App Selection
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Implementation of App into Classroom
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Reading Raven $3.99
-Progression self paced lessons – pre-reading to reading full sentences.
-11 types of games and activities.
-Speed and tolerance dynamically adapt to motor control ability.
-Categories: reading, phonics, letters, spelling, writing, vocabulary, early learning, special needs.
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Orthographic Processing:
-letter recognition
-letter formation
Phonological Processing:
-Sound–symbol correspondence
-Rhyming and initial sound awareness
-Onset and rime
-Sequencing (word knowledge)
Language Processors:
-Sight word knowledge
-Vocabulary
Memory:
-Word building (spelling)
Graphomotor:
-Printing and letter formation
-Visual-motor integration
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For students who need opportunities to practice:
-letter matching
-letter tracing
-letter recognition
-word matching
-vocabulary
-word beginnings
-word building (spelling)
-word recognition
-reading aloud (voice recording)
-word tracing
-word families (rhyming and beginning sounds)
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-Wide range of skills is targeted.
-Linkage of letter name to sound and letter formation
-Appropriate for grades primary and grade 1 (regular program) and for remediation up to grade 2 or for a special needs child
-Appropriate for those who are chronologically or developmentally aged 3-6
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-Used as a Center activity (4 iPads and headphones required)
-With earphones, it could be used as part of an individual child’s program due to loud auditory feedback for correct responses.
-practice correct letter formation
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Comprehension Therappy$24.99 (Lite- free)
(Tactus Therapy Solutions)
Targets auditory and reading comprehension of single words.
3 modes –Listen, Read & Listen and Read.
Customize array size - select from 2,3,4, or six photos.
-10 categories of nouns (food, objects, places, people, body parts).
-3 levels of difficulty
-Aphasia friendly interface
E-mail results – for teacher or communication with home.
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Language Processor:
-Sight word knowledge
-Vocabulary
Orthographic Knowledge:
-alphabetic knowledge – letter identity
-spelling
Phonological Processor:
-letter sound associations
-order, identity, number of sounds in a word
Visual Processors:
Visual memory
Visual matching
Memory:
-retrieval and recall
-word meaning
-visual memory
Executive Function:
-Attention
-Associations
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Helpful for people with receptive dysphasia, attention deficits, and for vocabulary development. Helpful for apraxia and practice of speech production
Repeated play and practice may improve memory of objects and words and association of objects and words
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-Works in both auditory and visual modalities to improve comprehension, word and picture associations, and vocabulary development
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-Used as a Center activity (4 iPads and headphones required)
-With earphones, it could be used as part of an individual child’s program (IPP, Resource or Speech)
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Rainbow Sentences$7.99
Help child construct grammatically correct sentences using colour coded visual cues. (who, what, where, when, why)
Learn to recognize the parts of sentences; nouns, verbs, prepositions, etc
Three levels of play; each level has 55 sentences.
6 levels of sentence complexity
Voice recording available – work on developing receptive and expressive language skills
Pictograph lessons
Save and e-mail sentences.
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Meaning Processors:
-gestalt for sentence comprehension
Sequential Processors:
-syntax
-grammar
-sentence structure
Semantic Processor:
-Word Meaning
Language Processors:
-vocabulary
-oral language
-comprehension of phrases – (article + noun + verb)
Executive function:
Attention
Concentration
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Sentence construction; ordering phrases
Grammar
Sentence Structure
Oral Language development; simple sentences progressing to more complex sentences
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Students that need support with executive function:
attention and sustained engagement – completion of each round-earn a puzzle piece; intermittent schedule of reinforcement-moves to five complete sentences for a puzzle piece
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-Used as a Center activity (4 iPads and headphones required)
-With earphones, it could be used as part of an individual child’s program.
Audio can be switched on and off
Colour coding can be turned on and off
Words or word groups can be moved
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Ansel & Clair’s Adventures in Africa $4.99
-interactive adventure of a space alien and a robot.
Features quests, puzzles & games in three
-Offers hours of exploration
-Collect and arrange photos in a travel log
Utilizes a thematic and contextual approach to teach geography, history and science, vocabulary and reading
Focus on a number of non-fiction concepts – migration, camouflage, nocturnal, herbivoire, predator, vertebrate and cold-blooded.
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Language Processors:
-Auditory processing
-Comprehension
-Vocabulary
Sensory Processing:
Auditory perception
Orthographic Processors:
-Alphabetic knowledge
-Word knowledge
Memory:
-retrieval and recall
-word meaning
-visual memory
Executive Function:
-Attention
-Associations
-Sustaining Engagement
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Print impaired (non-readers) - text is read to you with paragraph highlighting.
Students with a demonstrated preference for non-fiction.
Readers who need enrichment.
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Focus on non-fiction
Encourages children to think and ask questions through Ansel’s critical questioning.
Combination of still life (real life) photography and animation.
Game format promotes engagement.
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With headphones, this app could be used during reading or science period for regular program and special needs students
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SeeUSay: Language Based Assistive Learning $1.99
Speech program where sounds and words are modeled (44 sounds and complete Dolch word list)
Practice alphabet, rhyming, writing and spelling and word recognition (complete Dolch list).
Word or sound is seen in text form then you tap on the text to hear and see the word said (able to record yourself)
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Orthographic Processors:
Visual discrimination
Sensory Processors:
Visual-motor integration
Sensory motor process
Phonological Awareness:
Phonemic awareness
Letter-sound associations
Meaning Processors:
Context associations
Vocabulary
Executive Function:
Attention
Modulating effort
Sustaining engagement
Memory:
Short term
Muscle memory
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Students with phonological difficulties that can not distinguish speech sounds.
Auditory processing difficulties.
English language learners of all ages
Students with craniofacial anomalies or speech production difficulties
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Uses a multisensory approach (visual, auditory and kinesthetic) with an emphasis on articulation to teach the alphabetic principle, phonemic awareness, and sight words
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Quiet space in classroom – that may afford some privacy
For individual use.
Teacher check ins
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Autism & PDD Grammar (Lite) (Free)
Five stories about Buddy Bear that addresses a grammar feature.
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Improves communication skills, practice of grammar skills, comprehension,
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Assists children with autism, joint attention, reciprocity and early language
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The answer format is multiple-choice with an easy one-tap or click-and-drag response. Correct responses are reinforced with lively animation and sound effects, and an audio narration of the proper grammar form:
teaches verbs, nouns and negation
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Reading remediation. Simple, predictable language, open ended questions, engaging animation and sound effects
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PCS Bingo- (free) practice vocabulary, articulation, and rhyming
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Meaning: Vocabulary, recall, phonological awareness, syntax, working memory, orthographic processing
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Children with Autism, Down Syndrome, and speech and Language delays
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Great for mobile activity during reading workshop
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Customizable categories,
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What’s that sound? (free) 500+ sounds and photos of things, machines, nature, cars, animals.
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Auditory processing and association, auditory memory, Making connections to real life.
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Children ages 4+ . Children with Asperger or autism
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Higher level than most apps that show basic sounds. Social interaction with peers
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Absolutely fabulous pictures. Options of 2 or 4 pics to choose from.
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Which image doesn’t belong activity
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Visual stimulation, categorization, comprehension, visual organization
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Children with autism
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Choose and talk about what attribute an object does not belong in the group shown: colour, shape, theme etc.
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3 topics: people, objects, transportation. Begins with simple matching and gets progressively more difficult.
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Pic a word- (free)
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Sequential processing, emotional, self control and regulation
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Children who struggle with speech and auditory processing. Helps with executive functioning skills (allows expression of needs)
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Improves social and communication skills. Teaches word assoc. along with visual pictures of everyday items
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Helps express emotional needs.
Great pics, easy to use. Can change # of pics per page… 2 or 4
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